### Upcoming Meetings
**Thursday, November 10, 7:30 PM** Dr. Michael King, an experienced high-performance HF receiver designer, will talk on hardware design for Software Defined Radio systems that hams can build. Dolley Madison Library, McLean, VA. 1244 Oak Ridge Avenue, McLean, VA. The meeting room is on the main floor, not the old location in the basement.
Starting at our November 10 meeting, nominations will be in order for Directors for the 2012-2014 term of office. Elections will be held at our December meeting. Nominations may also be made to Secretary Karl Burger, w4krl@dcm-va.com, up until the December meeting. Directors whose terms are expiring are Bill Fenn, N4TS; Frank Gentges, KØBRA;and Paul Rinaldo, W4RI. Those three receiving the most votes will become Directors. Those receiving the next two number of votes will become Alternates. Paul Mooney, K4KRE and Rob Seastrom, AI4UC are incumbent Alternates for 2011.
**Thursday, December 8, 7:30 PM** This will be our Annual Meeting - an opportunity to hear from Directors, Officers and Members on their projects, and to plan for 2012. Dolley Madison Library, McLean, VA.
### Recent Meetings
**Thursday, October 13** This meeting was devoted to a discussion of digital amateur television by Bill Fenn, N4TS and Paul Rinaldo, W4RI. DVB-S and other protocols were covered. See synopsis of this meeting in the Nov-Dec AMRAD Newsletter.
### Upcoming Events
**January 14** Greenwood Hamfest, Greenwood, SC, www.w4gwd.org
**January 14** Winston-Salem FirstFest 2012, http://FirstFest2012.w4nc.org
**February 4** Virginia State Convention (Frostfest 2012), Richmnd, VA, www.frostfest.com
**February 4** South Carolina State Convention, Ladson, SC, www.wa4usn.org
**February 26** Vienna Wireless Society Winterfest, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA, http://www.viennawireless.org/winterfest.php
**March 17** Charleston WV Area Hamfest, Charleston, WV, www.w8gk.org
**March 31** Greater Baltimore Hamboree & Computerfest, Timonium, MD, www.gbhc.org.
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